National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1992.National Book Award in Fiction Long List for The End of the Point, 2013.Intensely imagined, right-valued, memorable.' In a Chicago Tribune review of The Honey Thief, John Gregory Brown wrote, 'One of our finest writers on the grand drama of simply growing up.' Awards In a review of Unravelling in The New York Times Book Review, Benjamin DeMott wrote, 'Exceptional. In Awake, Graver uses the genetic disease Xeroderma Pigmentosum to explore a mother's relationships with her sons, her husband and, eventually, her lover the novel is set at a camp for children with this rare disease.

The Honey Thief, a contemporary novel, explores a mother/daughter relationship, as well as the fall-out of living with-and losing-a mentally ill father. Graver's first novel, Unravelling, is set in 19th-century America in the Lowell textile mills and tells the story of a fiercely independent young woman and the life she eventually fashions for herself. The novel, featured by New York Times Book Review editor Alida Becker, is set in a summer community on the coast of Massachusetts from 1942 through 1999 and is a layered meditation on place and family across half a century. Her 2013 novel, 'The End of the Point,' has met with praise since its release.

Graver writes character-driven psychological fiction set in a wide variety of times and places, as well as more experimental short fiction, and non-fiction essays on a variety of subjects. Married to civil rights lawyer James Pingeon, Graver is the mother of two daughters Chloe and Sylvie. A recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston College since 1993. She also did graduate work at Cornell University. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. Graver was born in Los Angeles on July 2, 1964, California, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver